Genre: Music Biopic (Nooooooooooooo!!!) Premise: A young Kanye West goes up against impossible odds to make his first album. About: This script finished Top 20 on last year’s Black List. The writing team worked together contributing on two TV shows, Instinct and L.A.’s Finest. They realized if they wanted to break out of writing for […]

Genre: Superhero Premise: Thor must team up with his ex-girlfriend, also Thor, to save a bunch of children who’ve been kidnapped by an evil supervillain who is moodily flying around the universe killing gods. About: Thor 4 opened with 143 million this weekend which is a number the industry doesn’t really know what to do […]

A good portion of you Scriptshadow readers are intermediates. You’ve been at this for over five years. You’ve gotten a good handle on the craft. You understand many of the screenwriting pitfalls and know how to actively navigate them. And yet, here you are. Still in this frustrating nomenclature of unpaid unknown screenwriters. And you’re […]

Today we’ve got Get Out meets Rosemary’s Baby meets The Stepford Wives. Genre: Horror Premise: A pregnant couple hoping to start their family in the suburbs find themselves embroiled in a decades long mystery which threatens to shatter their American dream. About: Today’s writers are two of the few on the latest Black List to […]

Genre: Drama/Action/WW2 Premise: At the tail end of World War 2, a German war hero is tasked with exterminating 8000 American POWs… but instead helps them escape. About: Today’s screenplay takes us back to the fruitful screenwriting decade that was the 1990s. Randall Wallace was one of the hottest screenwriters in the world. Just two […]